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Auburn GA Blake Gideon follows Muschamp to South Carolina

Auburn graduate assistant Blake Gideon coaching Tigers defensive back Jonathan Ford in practice. Gideon has agreed to a graduate assistant position at South Carolina.(Photo: Twitter)

AUBURN – Another member of the Auburn football staff has made his way to Columbia, South Carolina.

Auburn graduate assistant Blake Gideon announced via Twitter Friday that he has taken the same position on Will Muschamp’s new staff at South Carolina. Gideon played at Texas from 2008-11 where Muschamp was the defensive coordinator and then joined Muschamp’s staff at Florida as a defensive quality control coach in 2014.

So grateful for the people at AU that made my time here so special. Mainly my DBs; who kept fighting, and kept ringing the bell.

“There really is a carry over,” Auburn senior defensive back Jonathan Jones said on Dec. 17. “He was with Muschamp and T-Rob for so long that he kind of follows in their ways. He’s a good coach. He knows his stuff. He’s hard-nosed. He gets after it and has high expectations even for a (graduate assistant) he knows what he expects.”

Auburn graduate assistant Blake Gideon has accepted same position at South Carolina.(Photo: Auburn athletics)

Gideon was given the defensive backs coach duties at Auburn during preparation for the 2015 Birmingham Bowl vs. Memphis after Travaris Robinson joined Muschamp’s staff at South Carolina.

"He knows the secondary very well,” Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn said on Dec. 14. “So I think he will do a very good job. He has a very good understanding of the back end. The kid's really responding to him and he's going to be a very good coach."

Gideon is the seventh staff member to leave Auburn in the last two months with five of them joining Muschamp’s new staff including Robinson, linebackers coach Lance Thompson and analysts Bobby Bentley and Kyle Krantz.